Nayini (Na'ini), or Biyabanak, is one of the Central Iranian varieties of Iran, one of five listed in Ethnologue that together have 35,000 speakers.
| Nayini | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Iran |
Native speakers | several thousand[1] (2000)[2] |
Indo-European
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nyq |
| Glottolog | nayi1242 |
| ELP | Nayini |
| Zefra'i[3] | |
Anarak dialect is divergent. Other dialects, or closely related languages, are Abchuya'i, Keyjani and Tudeshki. Sources differ on whether Zefra'i is a dialect of Nayini or of Gazi.
Ethnologue provisionally lists Khuri as a dialect. However, that appears to belong to a different branch of Central Iranian.
References
edit- ^ Ethnologue 18 gives a figure of 7,030. However, this is a guestimate based on 35,000 speakers divided among five recognized languages.
- ^ Nayini at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Endangered Languages Project data for Zefra'i.
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